Load-binder



R.M.KENYO\NI.

(No Model.)

LOAD BINDER.

PatentedApr. 27, 1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD M. KENYON, OF WILLIAMS BAY, W'ISCONSIN.

LOAD-BINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 581 ,288, dated April 27, 1897.

Application filed September 25, 1896. Serial No. 606,919. (No model.)

To cold whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD M. KENYON, of Williams Bay, in the county of WValworth and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Load-Binders, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part of this specification.

My invention is embodied in a device especially adapted for binding together on a wagon, dray, sleigh, car, or other vehicle a load of lumber, telegraph-poles, hop-poles, tubing, or similar articles that are loaded loosely on a vehicle for transportation, or with a wagon-box composed of independent and removably-arranged boards or planks. The many purposes to which this binder can be readily and conveniently applied will occur to those persons who have occasion to use a binder of this character.

The invention consists of the device, its parts and combinations of parts, hereinafter described and claimed, or their equivalents.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a wagon-box composed of independent and removable planks with my improved device shown in connection therewith. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same wagon-box shown in Fig. 1 with my improved device in connection therewith. Fig. 3 is an elevation of my improved binder. Fig. 4 is an end view of the improved binder and of that end which is at the top in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 shows a slightlymodified form of the binder.

In the drawings I have chosen to show in Figs. 1 and 2 a wagonbox constructed of independent and individually removable planks, being such a box as is ordinarily used .with wagons for hauling sand, lime, gravel,

or other similar material in bulk, with which my improved binder may be advantageously used for supporting the bottom boards or planks against sagging by securing or binding them medially between the bolsters to the non-sagging side boards of the box.

In the drawings, A A are the bolsters, and B is the reach, of the wagon-frame. The wagon-box consists of the independent and re-- movable bottom boards or planks O O, the side boards D D, and the end boards E E. As the bottom boards in such a box are liable to sag centrally in transporting a heavy load I apply my binder thereto between the bolsters in the manner indicated in Figs. 1 and 2.

My improved binder consists of a metal bar F, provided with a downwardly-turned free end G, adapted to engage the side of the box or load on which the bar F is placed and prevent the slipping of the bar laterally when strain on the other end would otherwise pull the bar from the position in which it should be anchored. When the bar F is to be used with a wagon-box, its other extremity G may also be turned down to pass over the other side of the box, and a binding-chain II or equivalent flexible binding part is secured thereto. This binding-chain H is of sufficient length with the bar F to go around the load to be bound up thereby and is preferably provided with a detachable link or clevis I. This clevis by means of its removable bolt maybe connected detachably to any of the several links of the chain, being thus adapted for lengthening or shortening the chain and for connecting it to the short arm of the lever K. The lever K is pivoted in a fulcrum-block L, which block is swiveled onto the bar F near the downwardly-turned end G. A hookM is secured to the bar F at a distance from the block L, and is adapted to receive therein and to detachably engage the longer or handle arm of the lever K. The lever K is provided near the end of its shorter arm with a recess forminga terminal hook 0, adapted to receive and engage the clevis I or a link of the chain. It will be observed that the clevis I is not a necessary but a convenient device, as the links of the chain, if of sufficient size, may themselves be made to engage the lever. The lever K is, by means of the block L being swiveled on the bar F, adapted to be swung laterally sufficiently to release it from the hook-catch M in the manner shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2.

In the modified form of device shown in Fig. 5 the bar F is different from the form of device shown in Fig. 3 in that'the end G is omitted and the chain H is attached to the principal straight portion of the'bar. Otherwise the two devices are alike.

I prefer a swiveling block for the fulcrum of the lever, but a non-swiveling block may be used, and in such case the catch for engaging and holding the lever releasably must be hinged or pivoted on the bar to adapt it to prevent lateral movement of the bar thereon be released from the lever. in one direction, a block swiveled on the bar, 15 WV hat I claim as my invention is a lever fulcrumed on the block, a flexible 1. A load-binder comprising a bar having binding member attached to the bar and 5 means to anchor it to a load against lateral adapted to take onto one arm of the lever movement thereon, a chain adapted to encirand a means adapted to catch and releasably cle the load, a lever pivot-fulorumed on the hold the other arm of the lever. :20 bar and provided with means to engage the In testimony whereof I affix my signature chain, and a catch on the bar adapted to enin presence of two witnesses.

ro gage and releasably hold the lever. RICHARD M. KENYON.

2. The combination in a load-binder of a Vitnesses: bar having an overturned hook or end adapted JOSIE THOMPSON,

. to engage the article on which it is placed and HARLEY VILLIAMS. 

